'Flight'
Opens Nov. 2.
Stars: Denzel Washington, John Goodman and Don Cheadle.
Plot: An airline pilot (Washington) daringly avoids a disastrous crash and saves his passengers, but an investigation finds that he had alcohol in his system during the flight. Robert Zuckerman, Paramount Pictures

'A Late Quartet'
Opens Nov. 2
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener.
Plot: The members of a world-renowned string quartet face increasing egos, debilitating disease and relationship troubles as they attempt to stay in tune with each other. Entertainment One Films

'The Man With the Iron Fists'
Opens Nov. 2
Stars: Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu and RZA.
Plot: Everybody is kung-fu fighting in the martial-arts movie from RZA. The man behind the Wu-Tang Clan stars as The Blacksmith, who outfits his fellow 19th-century Chinese villagers with weapons against a common enemy, and Crowe twirls a mean dagger as the dangerously named Jack Knife. Chan Kam Chuen, Universal Pictures

'This Must Be the Place'
Opens Nov. 2
Stars: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand and Judd Hirsch.
Plot: Penn plays a goth rocker (think Robert Smith of The Cure) who leaves his life of living off royalties in Dublin to search America for the Nazi war criminal who persecuted his father at Auschwitz. Chuck Zlotnick, The Weinstein Company

'Vamps'
Opens Nov. 2
Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter and Sigourney Weaver.
Plot: A pair of club-crazy vampire party girls (Silverstone and Ritter) learn that love can be a buzzkill even for the undead when one falls for a vampire slayer and the other runs into a crush from decades past. Anchor Bay Films

'Wreck-It-Ralph'
Opens Nov. 2
Stars: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch.
Plot: An 8-bit video-game bad guy named Ralph (a Donkey Kong-inspired brute voiced by Reilly) decides he has had enough of being antagonist to Fix-It Felix Jr. (McBrayer) and ventures into a futuristic war game and a candy-coated racing world on a quest to become a hero. Disney

'Lincoln'
Opens Nov. 9.
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.
Plot: In the heat of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (Day-Lewis) is forced to battle on different fronts. The leader and his wife (Field) are dead-set against their son Robert (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) joining the Union troops, while he fights alongside men such as Thaddeus Stevens (Jones) to get an amendment passed in the contentious House of Representatives to abolish slavery once and for all. David James, DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox

'Skyfall'
Opens Nov. 9
Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judy Dench and Ralph Fiennes.
Plot: A spy never shaken. James Bond turns 50 this year and hasn't aged a day over 007 in 23 films (if you count only official Eon Production films). Craig returns as Bond, who finds his loyalty to M (Dench) tested as M16 comes under attack. Francois Duhamel, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures

'Anna Karenina'
Opens Nov. 16
Stars: Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jude Law.
Plot: Based on Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of the Tolstoy classic, Russian aristocrat Anna is married to a government official (Law) in 1870s-era St. Petersburg, but falls for a young military man (Taylor-Johnson) when she travels to Moscow to help her brother. Laurie Sparham, Focus Features

'Life of Pi'
Opens Nov. 21
Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Gerard Depardieu.
Plot: When his family is lost to the sea after their shipwreck during a storm, a zookeeper’s son named Pi (Sharma) and a Bengal tiger survive and connect on a deep level while adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Peter Sorel, Twentieth Century Fox

'Red Dawn'
Opens Nov. 21
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Adrianne Palicki.
Plot: A remake of the 1980s cult classic that featured a small American town being taken over by Russians, and a group of teens who call themselves “the Wolverines” fighting back. This time, however, it’s the North Koreans who are invading. Ron Phillips, FilmDistrict

'The Silver Linings Playbook'
Opens Nov. 21
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro.
Plot: Pat (Cooper) exits a mental institution after being admitted following an incident involving his wife and her lover, but things really get crazy when he moves back in with his parents and he befriends a young widow (Lawrence) with her own complications. Jojo Whilden, RADiUS-TWC

'Rust and Bone'
Opens Nov. 23
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts and Armand Verdure.
Plot: Alain (Schoenaerts), a single father and bare-knuckle fighter, becomes a key to the recovery of a killer-whale trainer (Cotillard) after an accident leaves her in a wheelchair. Roger Arpajou, Sony Pictures Classics

'Killing Them Softly'
Opens Nov. 30
Stars: Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta.
Plot: A trio of wannabe crooks get in over their heads when they rob a Mob-protected card game, which causes the head wiseguys to bring in a calm and cool enforcer (Pitt) to investigate and fix the problem permanently. Melinda Sue Gordon, The Weinstein Company

'Hyde Park on the Hudson'
Opens Dec. 7
Stars: Bill Murray, Laura Linney and Olivia Williams.
Plot: Britain’s reigning monarchs make their first U.S. visit in 1939 to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Murray) and his wife, Eleanor (Williams), to win support for looming war with Germany. But the president has plenty of internal affairs of his own, including one with his distant cousin (Linney). Nicola Dove, Focus Features

'Playing for Keeps'
Opens Dec. 7
Stars: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel and Dennis Quaid.
Plot: Butler gets to show off his skills, and real Scottish accent, as a former soccer star who tries to pick up the pieces of his life by coaching his son’s soccer team. Dale Robinette, FilmDistrict

'Zero Dark Thirty'
Opens Dec. 19
Stars: Chris Pratt, Jessica Chastain and Kyle Chandler.
Plot: Bigelow returns with a project almost as top-secret as the actual hunt for Osama bin Laden. The Oscar-winning team that brought us 'The Hurt Locker' follows Navy SEAL Team 6 and a CIA agent (Chastain) on the trail of the world’s most wanted terrorist. The great manhunt might have ended, but the awards buzz is just beginning. Jonathan Olley, Columbia Pictures

'Amour'
Opens Dec. 19
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.
Plot: A loving couple, two retired music teachers in their 80s, struggle with realities of old age in this powerful French drama, winner of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival’s highest prize. Films du Losange/Sony Pictures Classics

'Jack Reacher'
Opens Dec. 21
Stars: Tom Cruise, Werner Herzog and Robert Duvall.
Plot: Cruise returns as the hero of best-selling author Lee Child’s novels. The former military investigator is pulled back into action to clear the name of a military sniper he believes was framed for shooting five people. Karen Ballard, Paramount Pictures

'On the Road'
Opens Dec. 21
Stars: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart.
Plot: This is the long-awaited film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s cult classic, which was based on his travels through America in the 1940s. Gregory Smith, IFC

'Not Fade Away'
Opens Dec. 21
Stars: John Magaro, Jack Huston and James Gandolfini.
Plot: Director David Chase reunites with Gandolfini for the first time since 'The Sopranos' in a tale of an aspiring rocker (Magaro) looking to break into the music big time and his disapproving father (Gandolfini). Barry Wetcher, Paramount Vantage

'Django Unchained'
Opens Dec. 25
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Plot: A former slave (Foxx) learns the way of the bounty hunter thanks to a mentor (Waltz) and aims to free his captured wife from a conniving plantation owner. Andrew Cooper, The Weinstein Company

'Les Miserables'
Opens Dec. 25
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.
Plot: Life couldn't kill this dream. The famous stage production (affectionately known as 'Les Mis') of Victor Hugo’s classic novel set in ravaged 19th-century France finally makes it to the screen. Laurie Sparham